by Kate Birch | Dec 8, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
The random uneasy moments resolve into the bluntness of grief. Honest and real. The vote this time was oh so close, perhaps the closest it has been for some years. But in the end it was the beautiful, moving simplicity of Stephen Keeler’s ‘Something about...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 8, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Singing Lessons for Beginners Necessity, that scold’s bridle, held her humble and mean, So that she no longer spoke, just looked – Her world reduced to a search for special offers, Fluorescent beacons that steered her far from Shelves...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 7, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Astral Projection Mrs Norris had thought ascension would be whirligig rides in bright violet rays, as the training books all implied. She worked hard on her technique diligently preparing an inner world, a kaleidoscopic version of her garden, neat...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 6, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
All that unpicking at the mercy of wind The tide unpleats from her godet, zig-zags in running stitch round the base of the côtil. Her quick fingers unravel raw edges, unpin seed potatoes, rip daffodil seams. She pulls hems from fence posts, tacks...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 5, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Matthew Caley’s latest and seventh collection is To Abandon Wizardry [Bloodaxe, 2023]. He’s made a Poem-Film with film-maker Jesse Adlam...
